10. The Construction of Change, Roy Ascott, 1964

• Ascott wanted to rethink art and art education 
• He wanted to connect cybernetics and art
• Cybernetics:  combines different areas of interest, integrating, bringing difference sciences together, environmental behavior,  
• Telematic art:  artists creates a communication system in collaboration with dispersed ppl- dematerialized art
• Artists should be conscience of the viewers' role.
• The viewer has a responsibility to extend/articulate/react (emotionally/physically) to the piece.  But the artists defines his boundaries
• Art is didactic - artists want to teach - to push
• "Acceptance can only lead to a 'murderous easy-goingness," you must be challenged and the artists must be the challenger
• To become one with the modern world, artists must reference science - look @ cybernetics
• Cybernetics makes an individual more the "controller"
• It is essential to lay a "groundwork for creative activity" - an artists' work can be helpful to students, but art isn't enough - the student also needs science to co-exist with the arts